New Auto Scaling Support for NGINX Plus on AWS

By Alan Murphy, Technical Manager, Business Development at NGINX, Inc.

An update to the NGINX Plus on AWS Quick Start includes full support for handling Auto Scaling events on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). We are pleased to share that staff from AWS Partner Network (APN) Partner NGINX, Inc., and Solutions Architects from Amazon Web Services (AWS) collaborated on the update.

The updated AWS Quick Start enables you to spin up an entire NGINX Plus load-balancing and application delivery infrastructure with minimal effort, and demonstrates best practices when using NGINX Plus to manage application traffic on AWS.

While some features for Auto Scaling front-end traffic are available only in NGINX Plus, we have demonstrated in the AWS Quick Start how to manage application scaling with minimal cost by utilizing custom-built NGINX OSS images as the application images.

This AWS Quick Start utilizes Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for NGINX Plus. Users will need to subscribe to the AMI before deploying the Quick Start.